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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:22:56 +1030
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>,
Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] module: potential deadlock in error path
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:
>> Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> writes:
>>> We take the lock twice if we hit this goto.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
>>
>> Damn, just pushed that to Linus: should have read mail first.
>>
>> I've added this, thanks.
>
> I'm not pulling this. It seems stupid.
>
> Why isn't the fix just this (whitespace-damaged, cut-and-pasted)
> one-liner instead? I may be blind, but as far as I cal tell, there's
> exactly one single place we do that "giti ddebug_cleanup", and it
> wants to unlock the mutex, so we should just move the unlock down one
> line instead.
>
> Hmm? Is there some hidden magic going on that I can't see?
TBH, I find your change marginally less clear.
You've now conflated two completely different lock paths into a single
unlock. mutex_bug_cleanup() should really lock internally, but doesn't
so we wrap it. And that mutex_unlock of yours has nothing to do with
cleaning up ddebug, so the labels misnamed, at best.
> diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
> index d25e359279ae..eab08274ec9b 100644
> --- a/kernel/module.c
> +++ b/kernel/module.c
> @@ -3274,8 +3274,8 @@ again:
> /* module_bug_cleanup needs module_mutex protection */
> mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
> module_bug_cleanup(mod);
> - mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
> ddebug_cleanup:
> + mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
> dynamic_debug_remove(info->debug);
> synchronize_sched();
> kfree(mod->args);
Not that it matters much: this is going to change for next merge window.
See below for freshly-minted patch (compiled, untested).
Nice to make module_bug_cleanup() lock internally but it's in bug.c,
and I've avoided making the module mutex non-static due to a history of
abuse...
Thanks,
Rusty.
module: clean up load_module a little more.
1fb9341ac34825aa40354e74d9a2c69df7d2c304 made our locking in
load_module more complicated: we grab the mutex once to insert the
module in the list, then again to upgrade it once it's formed.
Since the locking is self-contained, it's neater to do this in
separate functions.
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 2b1d517..c0bc9b9 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -3145,12 +3145,72 @@ static int may_init_module(void)
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * We try to place it in the list now to make sure it's unique before
+ * we dedicate too many resources. In particular, temporary percpu
+ * memory exhaustion.
+ */
+static int add_unformed_module(struct module *mod)
+{
+ int err;
+ struct module *old;
+
+ mod->state = MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED;
+
+again:
+ mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
+ if ((old = find_module_all(mod->name, true)) != NULL) {
+ if (old->state == MODULE_STATE_COMING
+ || old->state == MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED) {
+ /* Wait in case it fails to load. */
+ mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
+ err = wait_event_interruptible(module_wq,
+ finished_loading(mod->name));
+ if (err)
+ goto out_unlocked;
+ goto again;
+ }
+ err = -EEXIST;
+ goto out;
+ }
+ list_add_rcu(&mod->list, &modules);
+ err = 0;
+
+out:
+ mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
+out_unlocked:
+ return err;
+}
+
+static int complete_formation(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info)
+{
+ int err;
+
+ mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
+
+ /* Find duplicate symbols (must be called under lock). */
+ err = verify_export_symbols(mod);
+ if (err < 0)
+ goto out;
+
+ /* This relies on module_mutex for list integrity. */
+ module_bug_finalize(info->hdr, info->sechdrs, mod);
+
+ /* Mark state as coming so strong_try_module_get() ignores us,
+ * but kallsyms etc. can see us. */
+ mod->state = MODULE_STATE_COMING;
+
+out:
+ mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
+ return err;
+}
+
/* Allocate and load the module: note that size of section 0 is always
zero, and we rely on this for optional sections. */
static int load_module(struct load_info *info, const char __user *uargs,
int flags)
{
- struct module *mod, *old;
+ struct module *mod;
long err;
err = module_sig_check(info);
@@ -3168,31 +3228,10 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info *info, const char __user *uargs,
goto free_copy;
}
- /*
- * We try to place it in the list now to make sure it's unique
- * before we dedicate too many resources. In particular,
- * temporary percpu memory exhaustion.
- */
- mod->state = MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED;
-again:
- mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
- if ((old = find_module_all(mod->name, true)) != NULL) {
- if (old->state == MODULE_STATE_COMING
- || old->state == MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED) {
- /* Wait in case it fails to load. */
- mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
- err = wait_event_interruptible(module_wq,
- finished_loading(mod->name));
- if (err)
- goto free_module;
- goto again;
- }
- err = -EEXIST;
- mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
+ /* Reserve our place in the list. */
+ err = add_unformed_module(mod);
+ if (err)
goto free_module;
- }
- list_add_rcu(&mod->list, &modules);
- mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
#ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_SIG
mod->sig_ok = info->sig_ok;
@@ -3245,22 +3284,10 @@ again:
dynamic_debug_setup(info->debug, info->num_debug);
- mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
- /* Find duplicate symbols (must be called under lock). */
- err = verify_export_symbols(mod);
- if (err < 0) {
- mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
+ /* Finally it's fully formed, ready to start executing. */
+ err = complete_formation(mod, info);
+ if (err)
goto ddebug_cleanup;
- }
-
- /* This relies on module_mutex for list integrity. */
- module_bug_finalize(info->hdr, info->sechdrs, mod);
-
- /* Mark state as coming so strong_try_module_get() ignores us,
- * but kallsyms etc. can see us. */
- mod->state = MODULE_STATE_COMING;
-
- mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
/* Module is ready to execute: parsing args may do that. */
err = parse_args(mod->name, mod->args, mod->kp, mod->num_kp,
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